This page gathers the 9,098 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Engineering”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 78 of 91: from “subkey” to “supra-aural”.
- subkey noun A partial key.
- sublanguage noun A subset of a language, in particular of a programming language.
- subleaf noun A particular value of the ECX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction within a certain leaf (the value of EAX); each subleaf…
- submachine noun A part of a real or virtual machine which acts as a machine in its own right.
- submillimeter wave radiation noun Electromagnetic waves roughly in the band less than 1 millimeter in wavelength, used as a synonym for T-ray or T-wave
- subnet verb To break (a network) into subnets.
- subnormal adj denormal
- subobject noun An object and a monomorphism from it to another object, which monomorphism is interpreted as an inclusion. Actually it is an equivalence…
- subobject classifier noun An object which serves as the codomain of a classifying morphism, together with a "true" global element of the said object.
- suborbit noun A trajectory that is insufficient to achieve a stable orbit.
- subpath noun A file or resource path relative to another path.
- subprocedure noun A procedure that can be called by higher-level procedures as part of their operation.
- subquery noun A query embedded within a more extensive query, relating only to the data returned by the parent query.
- subrange noun A subset of a given range or numeric set.
- subrationalization noun A proposed change to the centimeter-gram-second (CGS) system of units to make them easier to work with.
- subregister noun A secondary or subsidiary register (area for number storage).
- subround noun A subsidiary stage of encryption, part of a round.
- subsatellite noun A component of a satellite that is released once in orbit
- subscribe verb To register for notifications about an event or similar.
- subscriber noun A system or component that subscribes to something, such as an event, made available by a publisher.
- subscriber trunk dialling noun A system of automatic connection of trunk calls through dialling a phone number without operator assistance.
- subscript noun An index into an array or hash.
- subselect noun A select query inside another select query.
- subsequence noun A subset of an array with the same ordering.
- subset verb To extract only the portions of (a font) that are needed to display a particular document.
- subset classifier noun The subobject classifier restricted to the category Set.
- subsetting noun The production of a subset.
- subshell noun A child process launched by a shell.
- subsite noun A website that is subordinate to another website and hosted in its entirety under that site's domain name.
- substitution cipher noun A method of encryption by which units of plaintext are substituted with ciphertext according to a regular system; the "units" may be single…
- substring noun A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.
- subswitch noun A simpler switch that is a component of a more complex switch, used in telephone exchanges or data routing.
- subtag noun A tag that is secondary or subordinate to another tag.
- subtexel noun A subdivision of a texel.
- subthread noun A thread of execution that is subordinate to another thread.
- subtype noun The data type represented by a subclass.
- subtyping noun A form of type polymorphism in which an instance of a subtype can be used anywhere the supertype could be used, without changing the code.
- subvariable noun A variable that controls an inner loop
- subword adj Of less than a word (fixed-size group of bits).
- subworker noun A worker thread that is subordinate to another; a subthread.
- suck, squeeze, bang, blow phrase A reference to the Otto cycle and four-stroke internal combustion engines.
- sudo noun A Unix command that allows a user to run a program with the security privileges of another user.
- suffix noun A final segment of a string of characters.
- sugar verb To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
- suicide battery noun A battery whose purpose is, in addition to powering an electronic device, making the powered device permanently unusable once the energy is…
- suicide burn noun A method of soft-landing a rocket with a well-timed, high-thrust engine burn starting at the last possible second, such that it reaches a…
- suicide cable noun A simple electrical cord with prongs on both ends; plugging one end into a live outlet (for example a generator) and the other end into a…
- suitcase noun In the Classic Mac OS operating system, a file containing fonts, icons, sounds, and other resources.
- suite noun A group of related computer programs distributed together.
- suitport noun An alternative to an airlock in space flight, consisting of a detachable space suit that is kept sealed against the outside of the…
- sullage noun The scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle.
- summator noun A logic circuit or other electronic device whose output is the sum of two or more input signals or values.
- summit tunnel noun A tunnel driven through a pass at fairly high altitude to minimize the length of tunnel required, at the cost of requiring steeper and more…
- sun pan noun A vat used for drying slip (a thin, slippery mix of clay and water), sometimes with artificial heat.
- sun wheel noun Synonym of sun gear.
- super high frequency noun The frequency area from 3 GHz through 30 GHz, commonly used for microwave devices, WLAN, and radars.
- Super key noun A modifier key used in Unix-like systems, usually a generic name for the Windows key or the Command key on a keyboard.
- super light noun An aircraft classification above light and below submid.
- super stall noun A type of stall, where airflow detaches not only from the main lifting wing, but also from the horizontal control surfaces of the tail…
- superband noun A transmission band used in cable television in Europe.
- superblock noun A segment of metadata describing the file system on a block device.
- supercharge noun An instance of supercharging.
- supercharger noun A device that can rapidly recharge a battery cell/pack.
- superclass noun A high-level class that passes attributes and methods down the hierarchy to subclasses.
- supercombinator noun A mathematical expression which is fully bound and self-contained. It may be either a constant or a combinator where all the subexpressions…
- supercookie noun A data store on a user's computer that can be accessed by websites and used as a more persistent form of cookie.
- supercritical adj Above the speed of sound.
- supercruise verb To cruise at supersonic speed without using afterburners.
- superdisk noun An early form of high-capacity floppy disk
- superduplex adj Of stainless steel: having a duplex structure (containing austenite and ferrite in roughly equal proportions) and also having unusually…
- superexpression noun An expression that contains multiple subexpressions.
- superfloppy noun Any of various disks of approximately the size of a floppy disk but capable of storing far larger amounts of data.
- superglobal noun Any of a set of special predefined variables that can be accessed at any point in a program without the need to be explicitly declared as…
- supergroup noun In the L-carrier system, a multiplexed group of channel groups.
- superheterodyne adj Pertaining to a technique used in radio and television receivers to tune to a particular frequency, or to receivers using such a technique.
- superinformation adj Medium capable of containing information that specifies particular physical states in which copying is impossible, usually in the realm of…
- superkey noun Any set of attributes of a relation variable (relvar) that serve to identify a single tuple or row, no other tuple having the same value…
- supermaneuverability noun The quality of aircraft defined as a threshold of attitude control exceeding that which is possible by pure aerodynamic maneuverability.
- supermini noun A superminicomputer
- superminicomputer noun A minicomputer that has higher-than-normal performance, especially one using 32-bit rather than 16-bit words.
- supernode noun Any peer-to-peer network node that also serves as a proxy server.
- superoptimization noun A form of peephole optimization that typically uses an exhaustive brute-force search across all possible sequences of machine instructions.
- superpipelining noun A technique for improving the performance of a processor by splitting instructions into many separate "pipelines" that can be executed more…
- superpixel noun A polygonal part of a digital image, larger than a normal pixel, that is rendered with uniform colour and brightness.
- superportable noun A subnotebook.
- superproperty noun A higher-level property in a hierarchy of properties.
- superregenerative adj Being a form of regenerative radio receiver that uses a second lower-frequency oscillation to provide single-device circuit gains
- supersample verb To antialias by taking samples at several points inside each pixel and choosing an average colour value.
- superscalar adj Implementing instruction-level parallelism within a single processor, thereby allowing faster throughput than would otherwise be possible…
- superslice noun A slice that is an amalgamation of smaller slices.
- superstabilizing adj Of a distributed algorithm: able to be started in any arbitrary state and then to converge to a legitimate state, and additionally to…
- superstring noun The string (sequence of text characters) that contains a substring.
- supertype noun The data type represented by a superclass.
- supervisor noun A process responsible for managing other processes.
- supervoxel noun A polyhedral part of a three-dimensional digital image, larger than a normal voxel, that is rendered in the same colour and brightness.
- supplementary character noun Any character assigned a code point in one of the supplementary planes (planes 1 through 16, covering the range U+10000 through U+10FFFF).
- supplicant noun A device attempting to authenticate itself to an 802.11 network.
- support noun Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
- suppress verb To reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal.
- supra-aural adj Pressing onto the ears, and sealing the outer ear (as opposed to being placed in the ear, or hanging onto the ear, or surrounding the ear).